Private initiatives by ordinary Israelis continue to gather much needed clothing and medical aid for the Syrian people. A crowdfunding campaign to bring emergency supplies to embattled Syrians is also ongoing and has already raised over $258,000 in five days. The recent charity drives by Israelis for their Syrian neighbors...

The Islamic State on Tuesday took responsibility for a lethal truck attack on a crowded Christmas market in Berlin a day earlier that killed a dozen people and injured 48 more. The jihadist group’s Amaq news agency claimed that a “soldier of the Islamic State … carried out the attack in response to...

Two Israeli women of Ethiopian descent were sworn in as judges by President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday, marking a first in the country’s history. Esther Tapeta Gardi will serve on the Haifa District’s Traffic Court while Adenko Sabhat-Haimovich will sit on the Magistrates’ Court. The ground-breaking appointments of the two attorneys were announced by the Judicial...

A 2,000-year-old bronze coin depicting King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Greek tyrant under whose reign the Maccabean Revolt took place, was recently found at the Tower of David in Jerusalem, the museum announced in a statement on Tuesday. The treasure was discovered during routine maintenance work, surprising archaeologists who believed that the historic...

An Israel-Arab member of Knesset turned himself in for questioning over accusations that he smuggled cellphones and intelligence information to convicted Palestinian terrorists, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Basel Ghattas, an MK from Balad, one of the parties in the Joint (Arab) List faction, presented himself to police in Lod to...

The Israel Defense Forces shut down “the biggest weapons factory ever discovered in the West Bank” during an overnight raid in Hebron on Sunday, Ynet News reported. Troops recovered 15 gun-making lathes, dozens of homemade Carl Gustav-style rifles, Russian 7.62 sniper rifles, M-16 rifle parts with assembly instructions, and large quantities of ammunition in the...